LEADS 2023 Report

• Context (TH): The Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) 2023 report was released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

• LEADS is an indigenous data-driven index to assess logistics infrastructure, services, and human resources across all States and UTs.
• The 1^st report was launched in 2018 and is published annually (except in 2020 due to COVID).
• It is conceived on the lines of the Logistics Performance Index of WB.
• While the LPI relies entirely on perception-based surveys, LEADS incorporates both perception as well as objectivity thereby enhancing the robustness and comprehensiveness of this exercise.
• Objective: It ranks States and UTs on the efficiency of their logistics ecosystem, highlights the key logistics-related challenges faced by the stakeholders and includes suggestive recommendations.
• Methodology: The survey processes the data received from stakeholders (perception data) and States/ UTs (objective data) and ranks the logistics ecosystem of each State/ UT using a statistical model.

LEADS 2023 Report

• It signaled a positive shift in States’ performance across the key pillars – Logistics Infrastructure, Logistics Services and Operating and Regulatory Environment, 
• It empowers the State/UT Governments by providing region-specific insights for informed decision-making and comprehensive growth.
• The report assesses states under 4 categories:
  1. Coastal states,
  2. Landlocked states,
  3. North-eastern states,
  4. Union Territories.
• Performance Categories:
  1. Achievers (States/UTs achieving 90% or more percentage): Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, TN, Haryana, Punjab, UP, Sikkim, Tripura, Delhi, Chandigarh.
  2. Fast Movers (States/UTs achieving percentage scores between 80% to 90%): Kerala, Maharashtra, MP, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, A&N, Puducherry, Lakshadweep.
  3. Aspirers (States/UTs achieving percentage scores below 80%): Goa, WB, Odisha, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, HP, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Ladakh, J&K, and Daman & Diu and Dadar & Nagar Haveli.